*/
  static <T extends @Nullable Object> GeneralRange<T> range(
      Comparator<? super T> comparator,
      @ParametricNullness T lower,
      BoundType lowerType,
      @ParametricNullness T upper,
      BoundType upperType) {
    return new GeneralRange<>(comparator, true, lower, lowerType, true, upper, upperType);
  }

  private final Comparator<? super T> comparator;
  private final boolean hasLowerBound;

    // key is not present
    int nextHigherIndex = list.size();
    for (int i = list.size() - 1; i >= 0 && list.get(i) > key; i--) {
      nextHigherIndex = i;
    }
    switch (absentBehavior) {
      case NEXT_LOWER:
        assertEquals(nextHigherIndex - 1, answer);
        return;
      case NEXT_HIGHER:
        assertEquals(nextHigherIndex, answer);
        return;
      case INVERTED_INSERTION_INDEX:

  }

  /**
   * Creates a {@code HashCode} from a hexadecimal ({@code base 16}) encoded string. The string must
   * be at least 2 characters long, and contain only valid, lower-cased hexadecimal characters.
   *
   * <p>This method accepts the exact format generated by {@link #toString}. If you require more
   * lenient {@code base 16} decoding, please use {@link com.google.common.io.BaseEncoding#decode}

   */
  private static final int MAX_DOMAIN_PART_LENGTH = 63;

  /** The full domain name, converted to lower case. */
  private final String name;

  /** The parts of the domain name, converted to lower case. */
  private final ImmutableList<String> parts;

  /**
   * Cached value of #publicSuffixIndex(). Do not use directly.
   *

        return false;
      }
    }
    // We only care about the case when the supertype is a non-static inner class
    // in which case we need to make sure the subclass's owner type is a subtype of the
    // supertype's owner.
    return Modifier.isStatic(((Class<?>) supertype.getRawType()).getModifiers())
        || supertype.getOwnerType() == null
        || isOwnedBySubtypeOf(supertype.getOwnerType());
  }

        a full-time Guava team member. [Feedback](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4543114) from our
        users indicates that they really appreciate Guava's high power-to-weight ratio. It's
        important to us to keep Guava as easy to use and understand as we can. That means boiling
        features down to compact but powerful abstractions, and controlling feature bloat carefully.

   * accommodate as many threads as will ever concurrently modify the table. Using a significantly
   * higher value than you need can waste space and time, and a significantly lower value can lead
   * to thread contention. But overestimates and underestimates within an order of magnitude do not
   * usually have much noticeable impact. A value of one permits only one thread to modify the map

      <name>Kevin Bourrillion</name>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <organization>Google</organization>
      <organizationUrl>http://www.google.com</organizationUrl>
      <roles>
        <role>owner</role>
        <role>developer</role>
      </roles>
      <timezone>-8</timezone>
    </developer>
  </developers>
  <ciManagement>
    <system>GitHub Actions</system>

  }

  /**
   * Determines whether a BMP character is lower case according to {@linkplain
   * Character#isLowerCase(char) Java's definition}.
   *
   * @deprecated Some lowercase characters are supplementary characters; see the class
   *     documentation.
   * @since 19.0 (since 1.0 as constant {@code JAVA_LOWER_CASE})
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static CharMatcher javaLowerCase() {

   * value} is greater than {@code max}, {@code max} is returned.
   *
   * @param value the {@code char} value to constrain
   * @param min the lower bound (inclusive) of the range to constrain {@code value} to
   * @param max the upper bound (inclusive) of the range to constrain {@code value} to
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code min > max}
   * @since 21.0